The papal commission exerts an amalgam even stronger in painting, where the traditional models did not include binding.

The outcome was inevitable and the abbot resigned his office in 1858, following an enquiry by papal commission.

He received over 40 surviving papal commissions and communications, some of which dealt with the problems of married clergy in his diocese.

One was a baseball cap that must have failed to sell during a recent papal visit.

Certainly there were plenty of commentators last week who welcomed the papal visit.

Their antics, ironically, have blessed the papal visit with an odour of martyrdom.

I am pleased, however, that this papal visit has been a greater success than many of the doom and gloom merchants of the media had speculated.

The anguish that he evinced was not the most spectacular aspect of the first papal visit to this country for nearly 30 years, but there was none more affecting.